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Love Is All
Listening to the Swedish five-piece Love Is All gives you the same frenetic feeling that a sugar rush…
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The Vagina Monologues
Coochie, twat, vajayjay, honeypot. If youre uncomfortable reading em, you might really squirm at Eve Enslers evolving 1996…
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John Prine
If Bob Dylan werent already from the Midwest, John Prine would easily be the frontrunner for the title…
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The Twilight Zone: LIVE!
Retro-kookiness abounds in three episodes narrated by Dick Tracy-faced director Tim Moore as iconic creeper-outer Rod Serling. In…
Eat Drink Toke
“Shit, I guess now I have to pack a lunch.”Carlsberg’s decision to
“Shit, I guess now I have to pack a lunch.”Carlsberg’s decision to limit drinking on the job to…
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Animal House
John Belushi stars in the 1978 raunch-out comedy Animal House (presented by PBR). Its wildly uneven, a period…
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They Live
In the satirical horror of John Carpenter’s They Live (1988), aliens have taken over the planet and conspired…
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Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonionis international 1966 hit was his first English-language picture and a career-defining achievement for the late Italian…
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Elliott Bay Books Reopening
After all the anguish and analysis about why venerable Elliott Bay Book Co. left Pioneer Square, lets not…
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Peter Bagge
Seattle cartoonist Peter Bagge continues the chronicles of Buddyhis bitter, aging grunge scenesterin the eighth edition of Hate,…
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David Remnick
So hows that hopey, changy stuff working out for the publishing industry? Our nations 44th president reached office…
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Langston Hughes African American Film Festival
This years Langston Hughes African American Film Festival closes with Still Bill, a documentary profile of Bill Withers,…
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The xx
The last time The xx was in Seattle, they were opening for the Friendly Fires at Chop Suey.…
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King Khan & The Shrines
King Khan–the stage name of Canadian musician Arish A. Khanis probably more well-known for his stage antics than…
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Franz Nicolay
You probably know Franz Nicolay as the mustachioed, accordion-toting, wine-quaffing fellow with the Cheshire Cat grin looking…
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Mark Knopfler
In my opinion, Mark Knopfler is like JJ Cale–he doesn’t get enough credit for how good and innovative…
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The Church
For 30 years, the interplay between guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper has defined the trippy art-rock sound…
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Seattle Soundbite and The Maldives
Food and music go together like gin and tonic. But while the ties between the two cultural pillars…
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Jónsi
While Sigur Rós has been fading into an indefinite hiatus, the groups frontman Jón Birgisson went and made…